We all have to realize that we can’t just look at our history through rose colored glasses. There has always been some strife and ugliness in our history nationwide, and it is important to have access to all of it even if it isn’t pretty. Some of these tragic events happened to someone’s ancestors, and they have a right to learn of the bad, along with the good. You do a great job, Randi, and I for one was glad to learn about whitecapping even if it is an ugly part of Indiana history – it did exist and was a problem that was taken care of by the law eventually. We don’t ever learn anything from past mistakes by ignoring it and pretending life was nothing but happy events. Diane From: gftl Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:08 AM To: Janice Fleenor Smith ; in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 88 Janice, Because I live some distance from a majority of the 12 counties in my district, I am limited primarily to newspaper clippings. And, unfortunately, a majority of newsworthy items focus on the negative instead of the positive. You have been unsubscribed from the list. Randi On Tue, 15 May 2012 14:16:04 -0700 (PDT), Janice Fleenor Smith wrote: > Please unsubscribe me from your list. Your focus on whitecapping and > other violent news is not the type of historical information in which > I have an interest. I appreciate your preservation of that kind of > historical data, but I'm more interested in birth, marriage, and > general happenings of days gone by. > > > Janice Fleenor Smith > Ocala, FL > > The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, Scott and Washington. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I agree with Diane. There's also the importance of understanding the society and environment that our ancestors lived in. I personally find many of the "insignificant" stories told in your "clippings" very interesting. Whereas the history of whitecapping is extremely repugnant, it is part of our history and if we ignore the lessons learned from it we might wind up having to suffer through a repeat... history does tend to repeat itself periodically. Keep up the great work Randi! Respectfully, Bruce near Indianapolis, IN -----Original Message----- From: Diane Jones <dijon@ckt.net> To: in-south-central <in-south-central@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, May 16, 2012 7:04 am Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 88 We all have to realize that we can’t just look at our history through rose colored glasses. There has always been some strife and ugliness in our history nationwide, and it is important to have access to all of it even if it isn’t pretty. Some of these tragic events happened to someone’s ancestors, and they have a right to learn of the bad, along with the good. You do a great job, Randi, and I for one was glad to learn about whitecapping even if it is an ugly part of Indiana history – it did exist and was a problem that was taken care of by the law eventually. We don’t ever learn anything from past mistakes by ignoring it and pretending life was nothing but happy events. Diane

I love what your doing - never heard of whitecapping before - every now and then glean a little something. One of the tidbits the other day contained the maiden name (Waltham) of one of my friends. To my surprise when we started digging into our Indiana roots found she had some in the same area. Going to send her what I found. She went to school with my hubby and introduced us and I went to school with her younger sister but didn't know her at the time. Nadine

I love what your doing. Keep hoping to pick up a tidbit about my husbands great grandfathers Snider, Blevins and Ruberson families who lived we think mostly in Crawford and Orange, and possibly Brown, Perry and some surrounding ones. Had never heard of whitecapping, but it kind of shows how live then. Told one of our friends one day that we were researching in that area and she said thats where I came from. Lived there till I was seven. And that her Dad's family (Waltman) had apprently been early settlers there. Something came through the list on Waltman the other day so am going to call and tell her. Nadine